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Japanomania in the Nordic countries, 1875-1918 / edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, & Hanne Selkokari.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Ateneumin julkaisut ; no. 75.Publisher: Brussels : Helsinki : Oslo : Copenhagen : Mercatorfonds ; Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery ; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design ; SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, [2016]Distributor: Brussels : New Haven ; London : Distributed in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg by Mercatorfonds ; Distributed outside Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg by Yale University Press, [2016]Description: 296 pages color illustrations 30 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300220117
  • 9789462301214
  • 9462301212
  • 9789527067246
  • 9527067243
  • 0300220111
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.034 23/swe
LOC classification:
  • N7007.5.J37
Other classification:
  • Ib-b.48
  • Ib-oec
Summary: "This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Christopher Dresser, Pietro Krohn, Alf Wallander, and Frida Hansen, among others, offers an unprecedented study of Japanese influence on the visual arts in the Nordic countries. This unlikely diffusion of Japanese culture, known collectively as Japonisme, became increasingly apparent in England, France, and elsewhere in Europe during the 19th century, although nowhere was the influence seemingly as pervasive as it was throughout the Nordic countries. The book reveals how the widespread interest in Japanese aesthetics helped to establish notions of a fundamental unity between the arts and transformed the region's visual vocabulary. The adoption of Japanese motifs and styles in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark provided a necessary cohesion to their existing artistic language, forming a vital balance within and among all of the applied arts."--Publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Bok Almedalsbiblioteket Vuxen Ib.4 Available 80060623831
Total holds: 0

Catalog from an exhibition held at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, February 17-May 15, 2016; National Gallery of Norway, Oslo, Norway, June 16-October 16, 2016; and National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 19-April 21, 2017

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-291) and index.

"This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Christopher Dresser, Pietro Krohn, Alf Wallander, and Frida Hansen, among others, offers an unprecedented study of Japanese influence on the visual arts in the Nordic countries. This unlikely diffusion of Japanese culture, known collectively as Japonisme, became increasingly apparent in England, France, and elsewhere in Europe during the 19th century, although nowhere was the influence seemingly as pervasive as it was throughout the Nordic countries. The book reveals how the widespread interest in Japanese aesthetics helped to establish notions of a fundamental unity between the arts and transformed the region's visual vocabulary. The adoption of Japanese motifs and styles in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark provided a necessary cohesion to their existing artistic language, forming a vital balance within and among all of the applied arts."--Publisher.

Japanomania

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